Did you know that Elliot Byrd will be back at the world meet for the U.S. delegation? posted: Jan 3rd, 2021 The ICL Midwest team added 104 points to the 14+ leaderboard of the Indoor Cloud League in December. It concludes the ICL 2020 season for the Midwest team, which is headed by the SDMW NEXT members and was launched by Lauren Byrd in August 2020.
The ICL Midwest team submitted scores and videos for all six categories each month ever since and posted the highest total in three of the five months, once in August with the Top 3 teams (Hurricane Factory, Paraclete XP, ICL Midwest) all on the same leaderboard.
ICL Midwest and Paraclete XP are the only teams on the 14+ leaderboard with scoring numbers... (more)
Did you know that Alena Chistova is coaching Russia's Bubbles to the 4-way Women top level? posted: Jan 2nd, 2021 The Russian Indoor Nationals 2020 included the championship in 4-way Women, which used the same AAA competition draw as the 4-way Open Class teams did. Three all-female lineups (Bubbles, Antitela, DDW-Team) competed for the 4-way Women title, and the defending champions walked away with the next Russian gold medals without facing a serious challenger.
It was still a very competitive situation between the two teams behind Bubbles. Antitela and DDW-Team were both prepared for the championship by coach Egor Gusev, who is a founding member of IFS-Moscow, this year's 4-way Open Class winner.
It... (more)
Did you know that the top 4-way spot in Poland has never been secure? posted: Dec 31st, 2020 The update from Poland on December 28th featured the AAA Class competition between the three new teams in this Open Class category, MAD Team, Flyspot One2Three and Flyspot Omega.
The actual AAA Class winner, Flyspot Sky4Four, did not have to look back, as there is no Polish 4-way team yet who could be a serious threat for the national indoor and outdoor team. In fact, Sky4Four was as far ahead of the team in 2nd place (27) on the AAA Class leaderboards in October (22) and November (22), as well.
The distance to the new AAA Class 3-team group behind Sky4Four has actually increased in December,... (more)
Did you know that IFS Moscow are the new Russian 4-way indoor champions? posted: Dec 30th, 2020 IFS Moscow have been one of the best indoor 4-way teams in the world since the team was founded in 2017.
The team career began with a 26.6 average and a 7th place at the World Challenge 2017 and a 3rd place with a 30.9 average at the same event in 2019.
IFS Moscow still have not competed yet for Russia at an indoor world meet. Black Cat represented Russia in Montreal 2017 and at Weemi Lille in 2019, after winning the qualifying Russian national indoor championships.
This now changed just a few weeks ago when IFS Moscow won the Russian Indoor Nationals and will compete at the next indoor... (more)
Did you know that iFLY Dallas completed the third consecutive Indoor Cloud League month after the comeback? posted: Dec 29th, 2020 The month of December is still not over yet, and the second complete set of six Indoor Cloud League scores and videos for the December sequences have already been posted.
The Hurricane Factory was first in the middle of the month, as the NSL News reported on December 21st. The Czech teams had only a 2-week window to use the 14-foot flying chamber in Prague between two lock-downs. Jan Klapka managed to activate enough teams for a total of 137 ICL points.
Kyle Hermberg now followed up with a team of twelve participants and coaches at iFLY Dallas before the month and the year go by. A total... (more)
Did you know that Flyspot Liga meet videos feature the three new AAA Class teams? posted: Dec 28th, 2020 The AAA Class competition at the December meet of the Flyspot Liga was exclusively a Polish affair. Three teams from the Czech Republic had made the A Class and Rookie Class leaderboards more colorful, while only Polish home teams competed in the AAA Class.
The earlier update briefly covered how the three teams behind Flyspot Sky4Four related to each other in their team histories. The InTime competition videos are now showing the same three teams in action.
MAD Team, the newest and latest addition to AAA Class competition in Poland, turned out to finish once again ahead of the other two Polish... (more)